Pittsburgh, PA
I got back from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, July 17, 2005. I was up there for about sixteen days. I arrived on Thursday, June 30, 2005, and stayed until July 17. I had so much fun up there! I did over pack though, so my suitcase was really heavy. I'll try and pack less next time I go up there.
The first night, I spent the night at my grandparent's house. My mom and I rented a car from Thrifty rental car company and we got to the house at about ten o'clock Thursday evening. My grandparents had turned out all the lights in the house and had gone to bed. THeir outside lights were on but they woke up and we talked and visited until about eleven thirty, and then my mom, grandparents, and I went into our bedrooms for the night. They all went to bed, but I didn't. I stayed up and read a book called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It's a really good book. I highly recommend it! I finished it the night I got back to Savannah, Georgia (July 17, 2005). Then for the rest of the two weeks I spent in Pennsylvania, I spent the night over at my cousins' and aunt and uncle's house.
I kept waking up the first night that I was there (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) because my Grandmother's sheets smelled really bad. So, I just read myself back to sleep. Then the next morning my mom and I went to my aunt's and uncle's house to prepare for the surprise party we were having for my grandmother. She's turning eighty on October 1st, but no one could come for her real birthday so we had a surprise party for her on July 4. My grandmother never saw it coming. She saw a bunch of stuff for the surprise party laying out but she never put two and two together.
So many people have asked my mother what her mother is like, and my mom always tells them that she reminds her of Edith Bunker from the television show All In The Family. If you've never seen that show you should watch it. It's on TVLAND and Nick At Nite. Archie's wife is my grandmother. (The actress is not my grandmother, but the woman the actress plays is what my grandmother is like. It's who she reminds people of.) And the funny thing is, is that my grandmother doesn't like or think much of Edith Bunker. So, I guess similar people do repel at times. haha.
Anyways, the morning my mom and I left my grandparent's house to go to my aunt and uncle's house, we told my grandparents that we were going to Target with Jacquelyn. They believed that story. So, I packed up my stuff and left. My grandmother gave me forty dollars though. I thought that was cool. Anyways, my mom was angry at me for sleeping later than I should have. I didn't sleep well the night before and I was tired, but I couldn't tell my mom that or she would have accused me of hating her parents.I don't hate anyone in my family. Unless you're Osama Bin Laden, part of the Taliban, or Saddam or another terrorist, I don't hate you! So I just let her be angry at me.
I forget whether or not I went shopping that morning, but my mom and my aunt went to Sam's club and grocery shopping for the party. They went to some other places too but I can't remember those either. We did go to Panera Bread and ate lunch. Later on, my cousin Jamie got sick because of the stomach virus her sister's kid brought home. I just had a frozen coffee drink that was chippy. (It had chocolate chips in it.) I know that I spent a lot of time around my cousins' six dogs. You see, I don't have dogs at my house so I was pretty close to heaven at my aunt's house.
After I arrived and was there a few days, We had my grandmother's surprise birthday party on Monday. It was fun or "nice" as my grandmother put it. (Everything is NICE according to my grandmother.) I got to see almost everyone on my mom's side of the family. My mom's aunts, uncles, cousins, and more. Everyone arrived at about four o'clock or four thirty and then my Grandma and Granddad arrived at about five o'clock. My aunt told them right off that we were celebrating her birthday. So she walked in to my aunt's kitchen and all of her sisters, brothers, and rest of the family yelled "SURPRISE!", and she was surprised. She never saw it coming, of course. She did have a good time, though.
About the everything being NICE to my grandmother, my aunt told her that my cousin, Jamie, (a female) was living with a guy. It's not her boyfriend, though. He's just a roommate. All my grandmother said was "Oh, that's nice." LOL . . . if you tell her "I'm walking with a cane.", all she'll say is "That's nice.".So yeah, just about everything is NICE to Grandma.
We had gave her the party on Monday, so on Tuesday my aunts and my mom's aunts, and her cousins, and my cousins, and my grandma went to a restaurant called Houlihann's and we all had lunch.I had a good time. I hadn't seen my godmother in a long time.
After lunch, my aunt, cousins, and I went shopping in the Galleria. We went into some baby shops for my cousin's kid and bought her clothes. But as soon as we left the store, the kid threw a temper tantrum, and we went back to my aunt's house.
They had six dogs, four kids that I could talk to like friends, as well as an aunt and an uncle that I could to like friends and reasonably. My mom drove me crazy the whole time. She kept yelling at me. I couldn't talk to her reasonably at all! She's such a pain around other family members and her friends.I finally blew up the last night she was in Pittsburgh, and I said, "You're driving me crazy! You keep yelling at me when I'm trying to have fun and when I'm trying to enjoy myself! So, quit!" And she got all mad and said, "FINE!" and I was happy. She left on Thursday, July 7, 2005. I was finally at peace and I didn't miss my family or my house the whole time I was up there.
But I didn't do a whole lot when I was up in Pittsburgh. I got to go to a Pirate's game though. The Pittsburgh Pirates are Pittsburgh's professional baseball team. They played the Philadelphia Phillies. I sat about about five or ten seats behind the Phillies' dugout. I had never sat that close to the baseball field before. . . Well, technically I have.
When I was a baby, my dad and I sat right next to Ted Turner at the Atlanta Braves games . . . when the Braves stunk. But I don't remember that; I remember events when I was three and older. I was one or two when I sat next to Ted Turner while sitting in my dad's lap, and those seats, my dad says, were right behind the dugout.
So when I was in Pittsburgh, that was the first time that I remember sitting that close to the baseball field. Honestly, I kept thinking about Jim Carrey being in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about a month or so ago, and how much of a coincidence it was that I was now sitting behind the Phillies' dugout. It's so pathetic how much I love that guy. I think about him 24/7.
Anyways, I sat up in those seats with my cousin, Melissa, who is nineteen years old. I also sat with my cousin from Grand Forks, North Dakota, named Luke. Of course, now Luke lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Luke is in his late twenties, and he has a girlfriend named Gina. She went with us to the Pittsburgh Pirates game too. She's really outgoing and talkative, and Luke's been with her for about two or three years now. Gina's from Minnesota. She was born and raised there. Gina kept standing up and dancing and screaming and cheering. She was so fun! I think we're going to be hearing wedding bells soon.
So yeah, I had a lot of fun at the Pirate's game. They won three to nothing (3-0). Later on they lost in a shut-out against another baseball team. It's a shame. I like the Pittsburgh, Pirates for some reason. Somehow, I always find myself rooting for the underdog, and there's no better word for the Pittsburgh, Pirates. They are the underdog. I like them though. It's weird how one game can do that to ya!
Then on Wednesday, we didn't a whole lot. We did go to my grandmother's house for Pizza and to say good-bye to my mom's brother, sister-in-law, and Joel, one of her nephews, since they were leaving on Thursday. Joel is a year older than my brother and he's really tall, and he's a geek. But I like him. He's cool, and he's family. Luke and Gina were still at their hotel room. I don't really want to know what they were doing and I don't think I should talk about it either. So yeah, other than the good-byes, it was boring. They were going to Ohio to celebrate my mom's sister-in-law's birthday. So they were off to have more cake and ice cream.
But before the good-byes, my Aunt Janine and I got really bored and we went out for a drive. We tried to get lost, but we couldn't. We were desperate, but it didn't work out. We did stop by the pharmacy and got back pads for Aunt Rhonda and for my grandmother.
We went out because we were tired of sitting there (at Grandma's house) doing nothing. My aunt and I talked about going out again and getting Rita's italian ice for everyone, but we never did. Instead she busied herself in cleaning out her purse. There really is nothing to do at Grandma's house but eat her food, and I was really full after eating four slices of pizza, so I just watched my aunt clean out her purse an add expenses up and subtract stuff out and get money from Aunt Rhonda because she wanted to take part in the spending of things for my grandmother's party.
After that I went back to my aunt's house, said bye to my mom and her brother, and his family, since they were all leaving on Thursday morning. I stayed up reading my book and watching television and movies with my cousin, Jacquelyn. I also got to talk to my cousin for a few hours. This went on for the rest of the week. We went to Target, Wal-Mart, and a place called Rita's where they sell really good Italian Ice. They sell lots of flavors; from Cookies N' Cream to Coconut Cream and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. They even sell Mango, Cherry, Grape, Watermelon, Strawberry, and other basic fruit flavors like that. It's Heaven On Earth! I wish we had one here in Savannah, Georgia!
My uncle is my mom's brother. My aunt is an in-law. Having said that, my aunt had her family (sister, brother-in-law, father, and mother) over at her house. They're from Niagara Falls, New York, and they were celebrating their mother's seventy-ninth birthday. My aunt's mother is a stupid bitch. She treats her husband like shit. She always tells him to shut up, and she has high blood pressure. But still, that's no reason to treat her husband like crap. She also has medicine that she is supposed to be taking so that her blood pressure stays low and such. But, she quit taking it, and she told Aunt Janine that she's going to be dying real soon. I was like "Take your pills and you won't die so soon!". But, of course, my aunt said it just as I was thinking it. So that's good. The bad thing was, was that my aunt's mother was scheduled to stay for another week. I wasn't happy but my aunt want this so it wasn't my place to tell her mother to go back to The Falls. Of course I don't know if the people in The Falls wanted her back there either. She was just trying my patience with her stupidity and her bitchiness. But on Wednesday, July 12, she got homesick, and my aunt took her back to The Falls. It's about a five or six hour drive from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'd like to go up there sometime but I missed my chance that day. Maybe next time. . .
But yeah, the whole rest of the week I just laid around the house, ate ice cream, nachos, cereal, and even more junk food. I gained a lot of weight. I also drank lots of Capri-Sun SPORT, Hawaiian Punch, milkshakes, Yoo-Hoo, and milk while hugging on the six dogs and watching cable television. I watched movies on HBO, the Golden Girls on Lifetime television, Three's Company and All In The Family on TVLAND, and punk rock videos on FUSE TV and MTV.
On Wednesday we went to Max and Erma's restaurant. There's a restaurant in Atlanta called that but there are none in Savannah. My Grandma came along and paid for the meal. Jacquelyn had a salad, and my aunt and grandmother had wedding soup. I had Tortilla Soup, and then we all had the sundae bar. I had two sundaes. I put peanut butter, hot fudge, M&M's, and whipped cream on the sundaes. The whipped cream was really soupy and kept falling off but I guess I managed. It was still really good.
On Thursday evening, I went to Red Lobster for the first time. It's as chain of seafood restaurants. I ordered a Lobsterrita, which is a twenty-four ounce strawberry and lime margarita (alcoholic drink) and Lobster Alfredo, which is lobster meat in pasta topped with Alfredo sauce. I asked for this SPECIAL because I'd rather have lobster meat than crab meat. It's originally called Crab Alfredo. But I asked if they would do a slight change and they did. My family was surprised that the chef was nice enough to do that for me. I wasn't. I knew that they'd do it for me. No matter where you go, they do that kind of thing for you. It probably cost extra though. Whoops!
Anyways, this was for my cousin, Jacquelyn's, birthday and this was her favorite restaurant. I didn't even drink all of my Lobsterrita. Jacquelyn drank a little of it, and then passed it to my Uncle Jim, who drank a little more. About half fo the drink was left when we left the restaurant. I was happy that we hadn't wasted money on it. Alcohol is expsensive, and it's even more expensive when you order it at restaurants. I ate the food though. Also, they had really good biscuits. But all in all, I wasn't too impressed with Red Lobster. I think the Lobsterrita was so big that it overwhelmed me and ruined the whole Red Lobster restaurant experience for me. The drink had too much lime flavor in it. I don't like lime.
Anyways, Uncle Jim was tired and nearly fell asleep at the restaurant. It was a really quiet ride back to the house too. I did have fun that night though.
Friday and Saturday were pretty laid back. I did the same thing on those two days, and then on Sunday my Aunt, cousins, and I went to Don Pablo's. Melissa wanted fried ice cream, but they were out. Melissa and my aunt got mad and decided that they'd contact the company and tell them that they need to order more fried ice cream in the restaurant because they've been out of it for so long! haha. They said it had been two months that the restaurant had been out of fried ice cream.
After the restaurant, I got dropped off at the airport. They sayd good-bye to me and wished me well, and I hugged Aunt Janine a couple of times, and then they were off. I was to head back to Savannah, Georgia.
We never got to go horseback riding because I slept so late every day. Whoops! haha. Oh well! Next time. . . I also wanted to go to the amusement park there known as Kennywood, but it was too hectic for that so I just had fun at Wal-mart, Target, Rita's, and at the mall. I bought two CDs (Punk Goes 80's and the next MXPX album, PANIC), some clothes, a belt, and an Independent cap at Pac-Sun, Capri-Sun, Hawaiian Punch, Yoo-Hoo, Jergen's Natural Glow, and lots of Salsa con Queso.
I flew on two planes back to Savannah, Georgia, because I couldn't get a direct flight back to Savannah. I switched planes in Charlotte, North Carolina. My plane was about twenty-five minutes late leaving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania airport, so I only had an hour in the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport. It took me about thirty-five minutes to walk from Concourse B to Concourse E, and then about ten minutes to get to my gate, which was E21.
The second plane I rode in on, was a small one. I had a seat all to myself and then the other seats were on the other side of the plane. On the first plane, I rode with two other people beside me. They were both losers, though.
Anyways, I found out that my dad traded the Chevrolet Suburban for a blue Toyota Tundra pick up truck, and that our cable went out. The cable guy came and went on Monday, and he said that it would be two weeks before we had cable again because he has to dig a ditch, and he's going to bury our cable line just like the power lines are buried. Then once that's done, we'll have television again. So I'm guessing that either at the end of July or at the beginning of August, we'll have television again. It really sucks! Also, our DVD recorder burned up. It doesn't even turn on. When I didn't come back from Pennsylvania, things at the house went to HELL. At least the coffee pot didn't break because my parents would be cranky. They've got to have their coffee in the mornings. But then again, we've still got the cappacino machine, so if worse came to worst, they'd have to make cappacino every morning, but at least they wouldn't be cranky in the mornings.
So, I'm kind of waiting for things to get back to working again. I'm counting down the days to when we'll have television again.
I'm also waiting to see when the next Baptist Student Union even it is so I can give Josh Squyres his birthday present. I found out that Marty never set it out where Josh could find it, and now I have to do it myself. He makes me so mad sometimes. He says he'll do something and then he forgets to do it. I've learned to stop depending on Marty half of the time. I think I'm going to have to stop depending on him all together. Oh well. . . It's better for me. I can do it all by myself. At least I can handle it. So yeah, I'm going to email Josh Beam, and see when we're all meeting again, and see how I can get Josh's present to him. It's going to be about two months late!
So, I've been back in town for a week now, and all I've been doing is buying booze for teenagers (my sister being one of them). We went to this place downtown and I bought booze in there without even being carded! I was like "THIS IS AWESOME!" I'm twenty-three years old, but still, my driver's permit is expired, and I get no encouragement on driving myself around one of these days. So I'm stuck with a chauffer everywhere I go. It sucks. So yeah, to pay people back, I go out every week and buy booze for kids who want it. I wish I could get tipped though. I used to get tipped. I don't anymore though. It sucks.
Yeah, so I'm tired of writing, and I'm done with this entry, so now I can log off! I've got another little thing to write, but I'm going to wait on it. So. . . til next time!
The first night, I spent the night at my grandparent's house. My mom and I rented a car from Thrifty rental car company and we got to the house at about ten o'clock Thursday evening. My grandparents had turned out all the lights in the house and had gone to bed. THeir outside lights were on but they woke up and we talked and visited until about eleven thirty, and then my mom, grandparents, and I went into our bedrooms for the night. They all went to bed, but I didn't. I stayed up and read a book called The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It's a really good book. I highly recommend it! I finished it the night I got back to Savannah, Georgia (July 17, 2005). Then for the rest of the two weeks I spent in Pennsylvania, I spent the night over at my cousins' and aunt and uncle's house.
I kept waking up the first night that I was there (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) because my Grandmother's sheets smelled really bad. So, I just read myself back to sleep. Then the next morning my mom and I went to my aunt's and uncle's house to prepare for the surprise party we were having for my grandmother. She's turning eighty on October 1st, but no one could come for her real birthday so we had a surprise party for her on July 4. My grandmother never saw it coming. She saw a bunch of stuff for the surprise party laying out but she never put two and two together.
So many people have asked my mother what her mother is like, and my mom always tells them that she reminds her of Edith Bunker from the television show All In The Family. If you've never seen that show you should watch it. It's on TVLAND and Nick At Nite. Archie's wife is my grandmother. (The actress is not my grandmother, but the woman the actress plays is what my grandmother is like. It's who she reminds people of.) And the funny thing is, is that my grandmother doesn't like or think much of Edith Bunker. So, I guess similar people do repel at times. haha.
Anyways, the morning my mom and I left my grandparent's house to go to my aunt and uncle's house, we told my grandparents that we were going to Target with Jacquelyn. They believed that story. So, I packed up my stuff and left. My grandmother gave me forty dollars though. I thought that was cool. Anyways, my mom was angry at me for sleeping later than I should have. I didn't sleep well the night before and I was tired, but I couldn't tell my mom that or she would have accused me of hating her parents.I don't hate anyone in my family. Unless you're Osama Bin Laden, part of the Taliban, or Saddam or another terrorist, I don't hate you! So I just let her be angry at me.
I forget whether or not I went shopping that morning, but my mom and my aunt went to Sam's club and grocery shopping for the party. They went to some other places too but I can't remember those either. We did go to Panera Bread and ate lunch. Later on, my cousin Jamie got sick because of the stomach virus her sister's kid brought home. I just had a frozen coffee drink that was chippy. (It had chocolate chips in it.) I know that I spent a lot of time around my cousins' six dogs. You see, I don't have dogs at my house so I was pretty close to heaven at my aunt's house.
After I arrived and was there a few days, We had my grandmother's surprise birthday party on Monday. It was fun or "nice" as my grandmother put it. (Everything is NICE according to my grandmother.) I got to see almost everyone on my mom's side of the family. My mom's aunts, uncles, cousins, and more. Everyone arrived at about four o'clock or four thirty and then my Grandma and Granddad arrived at about five o'clock. My aunt told them right off that we were celebrating her birthday. So she walked in to my aunt's kitchen and all of her sisters, brothers, and rest of the family yelled "SURPRISE!", and she was surprised. She never saw it coming, of course. She did have a good time, though.
About the everything being NICE to my grandmother, my aunt told her that my cousin, Jamie, (a female) was living with a guy. It's not her boyfriend, though. He's just a roommate. All my grandmother said was "Oh, that's nice." LOL . . . if you tell her "I'm walking with a cane.", all she'll say is "That's nice.".So yeah, just about everything is NICE to Grandma.
We had gave her the party on Monday, so on Tuesday my aunts and my mom's aunts, and her cousins, and my cousins, and my grandma went to a restaurant called Houlihann's and we all had lunch.I had a good time. I hadn't seen my godmother in a long time.
After lunch, my aunt, cousins, and I went shopping in the Galleria. We went into some baby shops for my cousin's kid and bought her clothes. But as soon as we left the store, the kid threw a temper tantrum, and we went back to my aunt's house.
They had six dogs, four kids that I could talk to like friends, as well as an aunt and an uncle that I could to like friends and reasonably. My mom drove me crazy the whole time. She kept yelling at me. I couldn't talk to her reasonably at all! She's such a pain around other family members and her friends.I finally blew up the last night she was in Pittsburgh, and I said, "You're driving me crazy! You keep yelling at me when I'm trying to have fun and when I'm trying to enjoy myself! So, quit!" And she got all mad and said, "FINE!" and I was happy. She left on Thursday, July 7, 2005. I was finally at peace and I didn't miss my family or my house the whole time I was up there.
But I didn't do a whole lot when I was up in Pittsburgh. I got to go to a Pirate's game though. The Pittsburgh Pirates are Pittsburgh's professional baseball team. They played the Philadelphia Phillies. I sat about about five or ten seats behind the Phillies' dugout. I had never sat that close to the baseball field before. . . Well, technically I have.
When I was a baby, my dad and I sat right next to Ted Turner at the Atlanta Braves games . . . when the Braves stunk. But I don't remember that; I remember events when I was three and older. I was one or two when I sat next to Ted Turner while sitting in my dad's lap, and those seats, my dad says, were right behind the dugout.
So when I was in Pittsburgh, that was the first time that I remember sitting that close to the baseball field. Honestly, I kept thinking about Jim Carrey being in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about a month or so ago, and how much of a coincidence it was that I was now sitting behind the Phillies' dugout. It's so pathetic how much I love that guy. I think about him 24/7.
Anyways, I sat up in those seats with my cousin, Melissa, who is nineteen years old. I also sat with my cousin from Grand Forks, North Dakota, named Luke. Of course, now Luke lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Luke is in his late twenties, and he has a girlfriend named Gina. She went with us to the Pittsburgh Pirates game too. She's really outgoing and talkative, and Luke's been with her for about two or three years now. Gina's from Minnesota. She was born and raised there. Gina kept standing up and dancing and screaming and cheering. She was so fun! I think we're going to be hearing wedding bells soon.
So yeah, I had a lot of fun at the Pirate's game. They won three to nothing (3-0). Later on they lost in a shut-out against another baseball team. It's a shame. I like the Pittsburgh, Pirates for some reason. Somehow, I always find myself rooting for the underdog, and there's no better word for the Pittsburgh, Pirates. They are the underdog. I like them though. It's weird how one game can do that to ya!
Then on Wednesday, we didn't a whole lot. We did go to my grandmother's house for Pizza and to say good-bye to my mom's brother, sister-in-law, and Joel, one of her nephews, since they were leaving on Thursday. Joel is a year older than my brother and he's really tall, and he's a geek. But I like him. He's cool, and he's family. Luke and Gina were still at their hotel room. I don't really want to know what they were doing and I don't think I should talk about it either. So yeah, other than the good-byes, it was boring. They were going to Ohio to celebrate my mom's sister-in-law's birthday. So they were off to have more cake and ice cream.
But before the good-byes, my Aunt Janine and I got really bored and we went out for a drive. We tried to get lost, but we couldn't. We were desperate, but it didn't work out. We did stop by the pharmacy and got back pads for Aunt Rhonda and for my grandmother.
We went out because we were tired of sitting there (at Grandma's house) doing nothing. My aunt and I talked about going out again and getting Rita's italian ice for everyone, but we never did. Instead she busied herself in cleaning out her purse. There really is nothing to do at Grandma's house but eat her food, and I was really full after eating four slices of pizza, so I just watched my aunt clean out her purse an add expenses up and subtract stuff out and get money from Aunt Rhonda because she wanted to take part in the spending of things for my grandmother's party.
After that I went back to my aunt's house, said bye to my mom and her brother, and his family, since they were all leaving on Thursday morning. I stayed up reading my book and watching television and movies with my cousin, Jacquelyn. I also got to talk to my cousin for a few hours. This went on for the rest of the week. We went to Target, Wal-Mart, and a place called Rita's where they sell really good Italian Ice. They sell lots of flavors; from Cookies N' Cream to Coconut Cream and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. They even sell Mango, Cherry, Grape, Watermelon, Strawberry, and other basic fruit flavors like that. It's Heaven On Earth! I wish we had one here in Savannah, Georgia!
My uncle is my mom's brother. My aunt is an in-law. Having said that, my aunt had her family (sister, brother-in-law, father, and mother) over at her house. They're from Niagara Falls, New York, and they were celebrating their mother's seventy-ninth birthday. My aunt's mother is a stupid bitch. She treats her husband like shit. She always tells him to shut up, and she has high blood pressure. But still, that's no reason to treat her husband like crap. She also has medicine that she is supposed to be taking so that her blood pressure stays low and such. But, she quit taking it, and she told Aunt Janine that she's going to be dying real soon. I was like "Take your pills and you won't die so soon!". But, of course, my aunt said it just as I was thinking it. So that's good. The bad thing was, was that my aunt's mother was scheduled to stay for another week. I wasn't happy but my aunt want this so it wasn't my place to tell her mother to go back to The Falls. Of course I don't know if the people in The Falls wanted her back there either. She was just trying my patience with her stupidity and her bitchiness. But on Wednesday, July 12, she got homesick, and my aunt took her back to The Falls. It's about a five or six hour drive from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'd like to go up there sometime but I missed my chance that day. Maybe next time. . .
But yeah, the whole rest of the week I just laid around the house, ate ice cream, nachos, cereal, and even more junk food. I gained a lot of weight. I also drank lots of Capri-Sun SPORT, Hawaiian Punch, milkshakes, Yoo-Hoo, and milk while hugging on the six dogs and watching cable television. I watched movies on HBO, the Golden Girls on Lifetime television, Three's Company and All In The Family on TVLAND, and punk rock videos on FUSE TV and MTV.
On Wednesday we went to Max and Erma's restaurant. There's a restaurant in Atlanta called that but there are none in Savannah. My Grandma came along and paid for the meal. Jacquelyn had a salad, and my aunt and grandmother had wedding soup. I had Tortilla Soup, and then we all had the sundae bar. I had two sundaes. I put peanut butter, hot fudge, M&M's, and whipped cream on the sundaes. The whipped cream was really soupy and kept falling off but I guess I managed. It was still really good.
On Thursday evening, I went to Red Lobster for the first time. It's as chain of seafood restaurants. I ordered a Lobsterrita, which is a twenty-four ounce strawberry and lime margarita (alcoholic drink) and Lobster Alfredo, which is lobster meat in pasta topped with Alfredo sauce. I asked for this SPECIAL because I'd rather have lobster meat than crab meat. It's originally called Crab Alfredo. But I asked if they would do a slight change and they did. My family was surprised that the chef was nice enough to do that for me. I wasn't. I knew that they'd do it for me. No matter where you go, they do that kind of thing for you. It probably cost extra though. Whoops!
Anyways, this was for my cousin, Jacquelyn's, birthday and this was her favorite restaurant. I didn't even drink all of my Lobsterrita. Jacquelyn drank a little of it, and then passed it to my Uncle Jim, who drank a little more. About half fo the drink was left when we left the restaurant. I was happy that we hadn't wasted money on it. Alcohol is expsensive, and it's even more expensive when you order it at restaurants. I ate the food though. Also, they had really good biscuits. But all in all, I wasn't too impressed with Red Lobster. I think the Lobsterrita was so big that it overwhelmed me and ruined the whole Red Lobster restaurant experience for me. The drink had too much lime flavor in it. I don't like lime.
Anyways, Uncle Jim was tired and nearly fell asleep at the restaurant. It was a really quiet ride back to the house too. I did have fun that night though.
Friday and Saturday were pretty laid back. I did the same thing on those two days, and then on Sunday my Aunt, cousins, and I went to Don Pablo's. Melissa wanted fried ice cream, but they were out. Melissa and my aunt got mad and decided that they'd contact the company and tell them that they need to order more fried ice cream in the restaurant because they've been out of it for so long! haha. They said it had been two months that the restaurant had been out of fried ice cream.
After the restaurant, I got dropped off at the airport. They sayd good-bye to me and wished me well, and I hugged Aunt Janine a couple of times, and then they were off. I was to head back to Savannah, Georgia.
We never got to go horseback riding because I slept so late every day. Whoops! haha. Oh well! Next time. . . I also wanted to go to the amusement park there known as Kennywood, but it was too hectic for that so I just had fun at Wal-mart, Target, Rita's, and at the mall. I bought two CDs (Punk Goes 80's and the next MXPX album, PANIC), some clothes, a belt, and an Independent cap at Pac-Sun, Capri-Sun, Hawaiian Punch, Yoo-Hoo, Jergen's Natural Glow, and lots of Salsa con Queso.
I flew on two planes back to Savannah, Georgia, because I couldn't get a direct flight back to Savannah. I switched planes in Charlotte, North Carolina. My plane was about twenty-five minutes late leaving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania airport, so I only had an hour in the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport. It took me about thirty-five minutes to walk from Concourse B to Concourse E, and then about ten minutes to get to my gate, which was E21.
The second plane I rode in on, was a small one. I had a seat all to myself and then the other seats were on the other side of the plane. On the first plane, I rode with two other people beside me. They were both losers, though.
Anyways, I found out that my dad traded the Chevrolet Suburban for a blue Toyota Tundra pick up truck, and that our cable went out. The cable guy came and went on Monday, and he said that it would be two weeks before we had cable again because he has to dig a ditch, and he's going to bury our cable line just like the power lines are buried. Then once that's done, we'll have television again. So I'm guessing that either at the end of July or at the beginning of August, we'll have television again. It really sucks! Also, our DVD recorder burned up. It doesn't even turn on. When I didn't come back from Pennsylvania, things at the house went to HELL. At least the coffee pot didn't break because my parents would be cranky. They've got to have their coffee in the mornings. But then again, we've still got the cappacino machine, so if worse came to worst, they'd have to make cappacino every morning, but at least they wouldn't be cranky in the mornings.
So, I'm kind of waiting for things to get back to working again. I'm counting down the days to when we'll have television again.
I'm also waiting to see when the next Baptist Student Union even it is so I can give Josh Squyres his birthday present. I found out that Marty never set it out where Josh could find it, and now I have to do it myself. He makes me so mad sometimes. He says he'll do something and then he forgets to do it. I've learned to stop depending on Marty half of the time. I think I'm going to have to stop depending on him all together. Oh well. . . It's better for me. I can do it all by myself. At least I can handle it. So yeah, I'm going to email Josh Beam, and see when we're all meeting again, and see how I can get Josh's present to him. It's going to be about two months late!
So, I've been back in town for a week now, and all I've been doing is buying booze for teenagers (my sister being one of them). We went to this place downtown and I bought booze in there without even being carded! I was like "THIS IS AWESOME!" I'm twenty-three years old, but still, my driver's permit is expired, and I get no encouragement on driving myself around one of these days. So I'm stuck with a chauffer everywhere I go. It sucks. So yeah, to pay people back, I go out every week and buy booze for kids who want it. I wish I could get tipped though. I used to get tipped. I don't anymore though. It sucks.
Yeah, so I'm tired of writing, and I'm done with this entry, so now I can log off! I've got another little thing to write, but I'm going to wait on it. So. . . til next time!